Leeds Institute of Health Sciences makes a substantial contribution to the delivery, support and quality assurance of the Leeds MBChB curriculum. This teaching includes leadership, management and delivery of the Individuals and Populations integrated core unit (ICU) (psychological sciences, social sciences, public health), Primary Care, Psychiatry & Public Health core teaching and placements; teaching on leadership and contribution to the delivery of the Research Evaluation and Special Studies (RESS) vertical strand of the MBChB, including supervision of Special Studies projects. The primary care placements are an integral part of every year of the new curriculum, offering a clinical experience which we believe is unique amongst UK medical schools.
We also deliver Intercalated Undergraduate BSc programmes in International Health and Primary Care, both courses are well subscribed and are chosen by up to a third of the Leeds students who intercalate, in addition to attracting good numbers of external candidates.
Our overarching strategy is to deliver high quality educational placements and programmes which are innovative, inspirational and offer well supported, interactive teaching based on sound educational principles. We particularly support respectful encounters with real patients in clinical settings or their homes; acknowledging that learning medicine is best done through early and continuing contact with patients in a variety of environments which provides students with the opportunity to interact with people from a range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with a range of disabilities, illnesses or conditions.